The FauxS-XP Icons are a few years old now. And aside form on last round of Updates, to include 128x128 in all of them, I have pretty much moved on with my life. One of the nice side effects of there success was that I have earned a pretty good Reputation on the internet, and with software developers world wide. And it has given me the chance to do things like the Orion Iconpack, and allowed me to be able to afford to do several free skins, such as FauxS-TOON, and LaST. And for that I thank everyone who has downloaded any of the FauxS-XP icons.
The down side to this is that they (The FauxS-XP Icons) have gone on to be some of, if not the most, Ripped Icons in the world. My Policy on all of the graphics in The FauxS-X Project, has been very strait forward. If you want to use them in any freeware program. Then fine. If you want to use them for personal use, fine. However if you want to use any of my Icons in a commercial use, (This includes Shareware) then you have to play a one time License fee. I do not consider this to be to much to ask for.
In the early days, I was a bit more forgiving. But now it is becoming ridiculous.
Just one, of the more obvious examples, out there is cPanel this is a company that charges several Thousand dollars a pop to license there software. http://cpdemo:cpdemo@cpaneldemo.cpanel.net:2082/
I have licensed these Icons to clients, (I am checking in to this to see if this is just a misunderstanding) for the use in cPanel Themes. And unless they changed there name, this is not one of them.
This is just one example, As most of you know I am a big TechTV fan, (It is pretty much the only channel I watch.) and I have lost track now of how many times they have been showing a program, and blam, there’s my Recycle Bin, or My folders.
To top it off, I have several times now, been accused of Ripping cPanel Icons and claming that they are my own. That is just too sad to even laugh at.
So what I am wondering. Is who out there has seen these Icons in different apps? I am more or less wondering how badly I am being screwed. I don’t think I will be able to do much about the FauxS-XP Icons at this point. But I am starting to re-think my policy on future suites.
The Icons I am referring to are any of the Fallowing.
https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=2&SkinID=779
https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=2&SkinID=854
https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=2&SkinID=784
https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=2&SkinID=818
https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=2&SkinID=841
https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=2&SkinID=980
And any other FauxS-X Project Icons.
Thanks for the help.
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